Word: gosset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris correspondents with nothing much to do sauntered around to the dingy Hospice de la Salpétrière last week and dug a choice little story out of Professor Jean Antonin Gosset, famed remover of the prostate glands of Georges Clémenceau (1912) and Raymond Poincaré who left the hospital and strode spryly home last week (TIME...
Modest to the point of bashfulness, Professor Gosset explained to last week's newsmen that his appendix exploit was merely a classroom demonstration of two maxims he tries to impress upon all his students...
...Chalons-sur-Marne, Professor Gosset improvised the first operating-room-ambulance, inaugurated the technique of sewing up soldiers on the spot almost as soon as they are blown open. In 1928 he was elected President of the French Congress of Surgeons. For 17 years he has refused, with a Frenchman's indomitable stubbornness, to be transferred from his beloved old hospital and lecture hall to more ornate quarters and a better paying professorship...
...Allous Messieurs, I am ready." said M. Poincarè, and an ether mask soon covered his grizzly white whiskers. As the great War-time President of France sank into somnolence, he did not feel Surgeons Marion and Gosset fiddling about below his bladder...
...Gosset, of Paris, recounted the miracles of " white magic," by which a healthy nerve from a dog was spliced to the ulnar nerve of a man, and demonstrated power of movement in 340 days...